Plant Closure and Institutional Modernisation

David Charles and Paul Benneworth
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David Charles: Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU
Paul Benneworth: Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU

Local Economy, 1999, vol. 14, issue 3, 200-213

Abstract: The Siemens plant in North Tyneside, England gave the pretext for a range of local agencies to act together, to modernise part of the regional institutional infrastructure. This improvement meant that when the investment closed, and technological, organisational and skill modernisation by the firm in the region ceased, the region continued to experience the benefits from the temporary presence of the investment. This paper uses the case of Siemens to problematise the conventional understanding of the ephemerality of branch-plant investments to understand how they can usefully contribute to the modernisation of peripheral industrial regions within the UK.

Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1080/02690949908726492

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